Tag: Roll20

Embracing VoIP Gaming

New links added! Two and a half years later, this is still a growing gaming format. Today, it is more mainstream than it was when I wrote the original comments in August of 2014. This is still an avenue I heavily promote! Lately, there has been a huge uptick in Voice over IP (VoIP) gaming…

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Google Continues to Dismantle Hangouts – Kills App Integration

Are you a VOIP Gamer? Do you use Google Hangouts? Then you might want to listen up. Recently Google announced they will be ending their API support on 25 April 2017. What does this mean for all of us that game through Google Hangouts? What is API support? API support permits developers to make apps that…

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Virtual Tabletops – Are You Biased?

Whether you are a roleplayer, boardgamer or wargamer there are a variety of online virtual tabletop applications or websites through which you can play games. We all have our preference for one site or application over all the others available to us. For example, my preferred virtual table top for roleplaying games is Roll20 and…

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Google Changes Fire Up The Gaming Community

Google+ is buzzing with angered comments about recent changes to the interface. Seems eerily reminiscent of what happens on Facebook all the time. The changes to Google+ are distinct and rather bothersome to folks in the gaming community and I fully understand and share the feeling. Summary of changes: – New newsfeed format that is…

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Dear Secret Santa! 15 RPG Gift Ideas

The other day I published a list of 10 RPGs (included below) I would recommend to anyone participating in any of this year’s Secret Santa programs or that needed some neat gift ideas. The post received quite a number of hits and then I realized that I left off a few items. This lead to the…

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Hey Secret Santa! 10 RPG Gift Ideas

It’s that time of year again for all those shifty Secret Santa programs and I have a few recommendations for those looking for neat ideas to get for your recipient. Secret Santa programs should be about giving an amazing gift that your target would love to have, but maybe just doesn’t know it quite yet….

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Fun Weekend – 3 Games Played

Yesterday, at Contessa’s Spring Break gaming weekend, I got the chance to finally play two games I had been wanting to try for a very long time. In fact, I owned both of the core rulebooks for these games for quite a long time. First up was Night’s Black Agent followed by Trail of Cthulhu,…

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Contessa – Promoting Visibility of Women in Tabletop Gaming

I’m excited to be playing two demo games this weekend during the Contessa Spring Break event! I am finally going to get to try Night’s Black Agents and Trail of Cthulhu; two games that have been on my “to try” list for a very long time. I was looking over their schedule and while there…

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Contessa Spring Break – 16 & 17 May

The ladies over at Contessa are up to it again! They’re hosting another game weekend on the 16th and 17th of this month. If you’re not in the know, Contessa is an organization run by women that promotes women in gaming and gender equality. Each of the game sessions in their events are organized and…

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